Kaufman play closes circle for DTF season
- August
- 20
12:46 am Live Literature
Sometimes you can take it with you. For Larissa Goldberg, 21, an intern last year at the Dorset Theatre Festival who is making her professional acting debut this season in their current production of “June Moon,” a comedy written by George Kaufman, her role of Edna represents in a way the closing of a circle.
“The number of believers we need to make this place work is 2,000 or 2,500,” he said. “I think we’ve found 1,000 of those. We’re halfway home. Active marketing and delivering consistently good theater is the key.”
Musicals are more expensive and complicated than straight theater, and staging “A Year with Frog and Toad” was a big gamble. But it has paid off spectacularly as it filled a void for family-oriented theater and drew dozens of area children into the playhouse and exposed them to live theater
He’s also thinking about staging a mystery. Next season will have its share of comedy as well, he said. “I’m desperate to do plays I’d like to see on a beautiful summer night in Vermont,” he said. “The most basic thing is great actors — it’s the core of the experience.”
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